Glass-fronted restaurant on the beach · €€
The restaurant on Praia do Homem do Leme itself, three minutes from the hotel door, behind a glass front that looks straight out over the beach to the open Atlantic. The city's tourism listing describes a menu that runs from light salads and pasta to Portuguese cooking, which is the right register for a long lunch that is really about the view. It has no website of its own, so check the hours by phone before walking over late.
Reserve aheadPraia do Homem do Leme, Avenida de Montevideu
Neighbourhood tea room with lunches · €
A proper Portuguese salão de chá on the street behind the seafront: tea, coffee and cakes in a 44-seat room, and a lunch menu of caldo verde, rojões, bacalhau à Brás and everyday fish and meat dishes, with tripas à moda do Porto, the city's tripe stew, on Thursdays. Its own site gives opening from 7am, Monday to Saturday, and Sunday closed, which makes it the place for an early coffee or a plain lunch away from hotel prices.
Walk inRua de Gondarém 912
Seafront restaurant and late bar · €€€
A white modern building on the Avenida do Brasil with two floors and a terrace over the waves, cooking fish, fusion sushi, pizzas and the chef's own plates: grilled sea bass with lemon risotto at 25 euros, octopus à lagareiro at 29. Its own site gives the kitchen daily from 12.30pm to 3.30pm and 7.30pm to 11pm and the bar until 1am; on Fridays and Saturdays the kitchen runs to midnight and the bar to 3am. Arrive early for the sunset.
Reserve aheadAvenida do Brasil 498
Francesinha and steak beer hall · €€
The Foz branch of a Porto beer-hall group, and the easy answer to the francesinha question without crossing town: the menu runs to three, including a vegetable one and an old-style version with roast meat, alongside steaks, petiscos and a beer list with a house IPA. Its own site gives lunch from noon and dinner from 7pm every day, until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Book at weekends.
Reserve aheadRua de Gondarém 487
Breakfast is served in Flor de Lis. Guests single it out, with oysters and eggs cooked to order among the reasons. The hotel does not publish a price for breakfast on its own, so check what your rate includes, and on a room-only rate ask what it costs before you arrive. The nearest early alternative is A Xícara, six minutes' walk on Rua de Gondarém, open from 7am except on Sundays.
A short stay built around Sunday and Monday nights if the starred dinner is the reason for coming. The dining room is closed both nights, and on those evenings the tables in the house are the hotel's second restaurant and the bar.
